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Los Angeles Times
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Mary McNamara

Mary McNamara: September is the cruelest month — at least in LA

If I ever leave Los Angeles, it will not be because of the traffic, or the city's inability to aid the unhoused, or even the sight of all those celebrity lawns in the middle of a drought.

No, the only thing that could force me out of my chosen home of three decades is September.

September in Los Angeles is the worst — a culturally manipulative, psychologically abusive, dirty con of a month.

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